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Facebook chat + multiple tabs = dead CPU

Technical, Political ·Saturday March 28, 2009 @ 20:13 EDT (link)

Does it have to open the chat window in every tab? Argh. It slows Firefox to a crawl even with as few as 5 (Facebook) tabs open. It must be doing a lot of fast polling—maybe they should switch to long polling, or perhaps they are, but Firefox isn't very efficient at it.

Short Answers to Tough Questions (Libertarian Party of Minnesota FAQ). (They had "principal" for "principle" once, in "Party of princple"; I dropped a line to the webmaster and he fixed it up.)